Well, you get to see ith inside every day. I still get light headed with initial incisions. I can watch and assist with anything, just don’t make me watch the cut.
I wish you were going with us. I’m sure your commentary would be way better than their lame audio tour! 
Apparently there are now three competing organizations with dead, plastic people-tours. I would rather go see Body Worlds than Bodies, because the ethics of this one skeeve me out more, but I think I will drop the $25 and go. It’ll be edumacational whether the bodies were harvested ethically or not.
Awww.
They seem to focus on the musculature - quite natural since that’s what people observe in action every day, and are curious about, as it lies so close to the skin - the muscle is what I usually speed through on my way to the viscera, which are what kills you when they have a bullet through them.
I’d probably come up with a constant annoying stream of “That reminds me”'s until you had to stuff a sock in it, and not know the answer to a simple question like “How does he kick that? What muscle is that? What nerve makes it go?”
I saw Bodies in Tampa and thought it was great.
They definitely focus on the muscular and skeletal systems in the publicity materials, because they’re a lot more photogenic. But in the actual exhibits, there are a number of displays of giblets, livers, and lights.
I’ve seen a couple of exhibits that show a variety of “lifestyle” affliction. E.g., here’s a normal lung, here’s a smoker’s lung, here’s a smoker’s lung with cancer, here’s a smoker’s lung with emphysema, et cetera–as well as livers with cirrhosis, arteries in various states of hardening, ulcers, strokes, melanomas, and so on. It’s pretty cool.
Oh, that is cool then.
Thanks.
Any with trauma?
I don’t recall seeing any trauma to viscera; only healed broken bones. Which, come to think of it, seems a little odd to me. I wonder if the organizers have some sort of policy against showing traumatic injuries.
Other than the sick organs, there were also the malformed fetuses, and the broken bones with orthopedic stuff (plates, screws, pins, etc.) in them.
Body Worlds 3 is at Science World in Vancouver for a couple of months. The man and I are going to see it in about three weeks. I’m not sure if I’m going because I’m interested or because of morbid curiosity about death.
I’m curious to know how close these body insides look to actual, living body insides.
We went today. It was interesting. They did have some examples of diseased organs, and several latex casts of blood vessels as well as bronchial trees.
It wasn’t very technical, which I understand, since it’s geared toward the general public. Interestingly, most of the people there today seemed to have some medical background.
I’m glad we went.